Karin Forsberg Nilsson receives support for sequencing project

2017-11-29

Karin Forsberg Nilsson is awarded a grant that covers sequencing reagent costs at NGI up to 4 060 000 SEK. The grant is part of SciLifeLab’s National Sequencing Projects initiative.

Karin Forsberg Nilsson’s project focuses on sequencing cancer stem cells and tumours from patients with the brain tumour form glioblastoma, with the aim to identify new candidate variants for tumour development and progression.

The SciLifeLab National Sequencing Projects initiative has been made possible through support from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. This year, fourteen applications were granted funding of more than SEK 33 million in total.

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Patrick Micke at IGP has together with Klas Kärre at Karolinska Institutet been awarded a research grant of SEK 4 million from the foundation Sjöbergstiftelsen. During 2017, the foundation has also supported the network project Partnership for Precision Medicine in Cancer, led by Tobias Sjöblom at IGP.

Marcel den Hoed has been awarded a three-year fellowship by the Swedish Heart Lung Foundation. The fellowship will allow Marcel den Hoed and his group to continue their genetic screens for cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.

Marcel den Hoed is co-applicant in a project that was recently awarded a grant from the American NIH. The project aims to characterise genes that influence the risk of diabetes and is a collaboration between researchers from USA, UK and Sweden.